Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

In seven years in New York the increase of lunatics under public charge has been 70 per cent. They number now 14,000 and they cost the taxpayers $1, TOO, 900 yearly.
 We feel justified in stating that even if the Consolidated road gets control of the Derby in any way there is no danger that the Green will be immediately turned into a coal yard
 There is a great deal of wild talk in New Haven about the "railroad situation" By and by, after both the offers have been care fully exc emined, we may know better what i; really is.
 The Salvation Army finds some hard battles in Kansas. This is the preliminary announce ment of one engagement: Smiling Belle from Wichita, Kansas, the girl who jumped out of two story window to get salvation, will be at -'s rink Monday, April IS, at 8 p. m. Cyclones of salvation! Tomatoes of power Gales of grace Celestial breezes l! Collection at the door to defray expenses"
 The Boston and Providence railroad com pany doesn't mean to have another disaster at the Bussey bridge. It proposes to build a stone arch, changing the course of the rail road and highway so as to avoid the sharp curve in the former, and to cross She latter at right angle. A stone arch is the most permanent and safest form of viaduct, but it costs more in general than an iron or steel bridge.
 Leon Swearengin, a convicted Missouri bald knobber, wishes that he hadn't been tried by . jury of farmers. The only evidence against him was that of tho wife of man who was whipped. She swore that the masked band left her house about daylight, going toward Swearengin's, and in a few minutes she heard his jackass bray and his dogs bark. The farmers on the jury knew that this outbreak of the farmyard was welcome to the master on his return.
 The children's reading room which Miss Runaway, a New York grammar school teacher, opened last fall in that city is 8 cheering success. She began with about $50 books, and promises of money to pay the ne- cessary expenses. Her idea was to furnish the children chance to read good books, and the idea was speedily appreciated. In short time she had issued 75O tickets to school children, and at times the room has been crowded and every one of the books in use. Poor parents who wish to keep their children out of the streets are glad to have them visit the reading room.
 It is intended that the school children of Germany shall know the history of their own country The Prussian minister of educa- ton has just issued circular to the directors of provincial higher schools, drawing atten- tion to the fact that modern German history is frequently overlooked altogether in the curricula of these schools. As a rule polit- ical history is allowed to stop at 1915, and the important events which have taken place since 1866 are neglected. The minister re- quires that German history shall be made to include the year 1871, and so to take in the rs- establishment of the empire.
 The Mormons have not taken the new oath as readily as some of the leaders hoped they would. ''All should understand" urged the Mormon organ, 'sthat the swallowing of the oath Is absolutely essential to the exercise of the franchise. All should know that vote will have greater value in Utah next August than ever before in this territory" The lists now show in many districts total registra- ton that falls below the vote east at the last election, when not more than one third of the registered voters cast their ballots. Part of this decrease is accounted for by the dis franchisemsnt of the women in the territory,